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Minecraft 1.5 coming in 'roughly two weeks'

Lead designer says long-awaited Redstone update will arrive in early March.

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Minecraft lead designer Jens Bergensten has confirmed that the 1.5 update to Minecraft, known as the Redstone update, will be released in early March.

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"Minecraft 1.5 will be released in roughly 2 weeks, early March," said Bergensten on Twitter.

The Redstone update was announced at Minecon 2012 last November and will bring numerous fixes to the game, including a new rendering engine and support for HD texture packs. There's also a tweaked inventory system, a scoreboard, and more detailed death messages. The Minecraft wiki has a full list of planned changes.

Last month it was announced that the Minecraft series has now sold more than 20 million copies.

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